Late medieval enclosed gardens of the Low Countries : contributions to gender and artistic expression / Barbara Baert.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in iconology ; 2.Publication details: Leuven : Peeters, 2016.Description: 110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789042932333
- 9042932333
- 704.9
- N7953 .B34 2016
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Printed Books | Academia Belgica | M.2017.047 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | ACBE17072189 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of 'mixed media' recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: Enclosed Gardens. These are retables, sometimes with painted side panels, the central section filled not only with narrative sculpture, but also with all sorts of trinkets and hand-worked textiles. Adornments include relics, wax medallions, gemstones set in silver, pilgrimage souvenirs, parchment banderoles, flowers made from textiles with silk thread, semi-precious stones, pearls and quilling (a decorative technique using rolled paper). The ensemble is an impressive and one-of-a-kind display and presents as an intoxicating garden. In this essay the exceptional heritage of such Enclosed Gardens is interpreted from a range of approaches. The Enclosed Garden is studied as a symbol of paradise and mystical union, as the sanctuary of interiority, as the sublimation of the sensorium (in particular the sense of smell), as a typical gendered product, and as a centre of psycho-energetic creative processes.--Back cover.
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